Marine Veteran Upset by What Students Used for Tug-of-War in Front of School (VIDEO)

A Marine Corps veteran couldn’t miss the sight right across the street from Martin’s BBQ in Nashville, Tennessee.

He saw two students outside a Catholic elementary school “desecrate the American flag that they apparently had been sent to retire for the evening,” according to an email the vet’s wife sent to WKRN-TV.

“They dropped it to the ground, raced it back up the pole upside down, wrapped it around their bodies, played tug-of-war with it, and dragged it around the yard,” the email said.

The couple was visiting from central Illinois when they caught Tuesday’s scene on their dashcam video.

“I can see why someone in the military would be upset, but being someone who has to wrangle a crew of four kids at home, I also understand that often times there are things that maybe they don’t treat with respect,” Josh Vegors, who was at the school during the incident, told WKRN.

The principal of Christ the King School told WKRN a teacher noticed the fourth-graders’ behavior after the time the video was recorded and intervened.